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Jack Ploesser

Last Wednesday's presenter for the monthly TriCity Potters' meeting at PoMoArts was Roberts Creek potter Jack Ploesser. We met him during our two days of touring the Sunshine Coast Art Crawl last October. https://www.gillianmcmillan.com/blog/2022/11/01/scac-jack-ploesser-the-niebergall His natural-gas fired cone 10 reduction pieces are exuberant,  very colourful, and mainly functional. Jack was pleased to be invited to talk to us and had prepared lots of thrown forms…

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February 20th, 2023
Read more about the article Sunshine Coast Art Crawl: Laurie Rolland
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Sunshine Coast Art Crawl: Laurie Rolland

After leaving Roberts Creek we headed North-West towards Sechelt, hoping to fit some more studios into our day. Just before Davis Bay we turned up Whitaker Road and found potter Laurie Rolland's studio. I've been aware of Laurie's work for many years, admiring 'vessels' and other sculptural forms in local shows at the Gallery of BC Ceramics and even here in Port Moody at the…

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November 2nd, 2022
Read more about the article SCAC: Jack Ploesser & the Niebergalls
Linda, Sue & Owen admire the Mandala
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SCAC: Jack Ploesser & the Niebergalls

Our Sunshine Coast Art Crawl continued with a short drive down into the village of Roberts Creek. There we parked beside Gumboot Restaurant and took a stroll down to the ocean. I wanted Linda to see the community Mandala. Local people re-paint it every year. After a very good lunch, sitting outside at the Gumboot Restaurant (the Gumboot café had no sandwiches!) we resumed our…

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November 1st, 2022
Read more about the article S C ART CRAWL: Creek Clayworks & Robert Studer
discussing salt firings
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S C ART CRAWL: Creek Clayworks & Robert Studer

Our second day on the Sunshine Coast Art Crawl started with a pre-arranged visit to Creek Clayworks. On this day we were four. Linda, Owen and I picked up fellow TriCity Potters member Sue Griese from her home in Upper Gibsons and we headed to Roberts Creek. The home, studio, showroom and salt kiln of Elaine Futterman and Mike Allegretti are on beautiful rural acres,…

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October 28th, 2022
Read more about the article Sunshine Coast ART CRAWL: Pat Forst +
Pat Forst with one of her birds
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Sunshine Coast ART CRAWL: Pat Forst +

The next stop on our tour was Forst Pottery Studio in Gibsons. Pat Forst specializes in reduction-fired cone 10 sculptural work. We saw several of her wall-pieces and noticed that she sprays darker oxide stains from one direction to accentuate the forms. http://www.forststudio.com Pat Forst with one of her birds Pat kindly took us outside to see her gas kiln, and I recognized a Bob…

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October 25th, 2022